"If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world."

“Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they don't know. Or they think they know, but it's just confabulation and biases. So ignore them unless what they say resonates with some real wisdom inside of you. Assume they're a fool and find out the truth for yourself.”

“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”

“But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.”

Source : Lauren Weisberger (2006). “Everyone Worth Knowing”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

“Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.”

“Love is being accepting of all of their flaws. Love is being understanding and compassionate. Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them. Love is being constantly supportive.”

“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

“Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.”

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”